Editing Signe Toly Anderson (section)

=== Early life ===

Anderson was born Signe Toly in Seattle, Washington on September 15, 1941. Her parents divorced when she was three, and her mother raised her in Portland, Oregon.  She developed an early interest in singing, performing in a band with three male musicians she had known in high school, under the name Three Guys and a Gal. 

She moved to San Francisco in her 20s and began appearing at a popular folk club, the Drinking Gourd.  It was there that she came to the attention of [[Marty Balin]], who asked her to join the band he was forming following a San Francisco performance.  Soon after joining the Airplane, she married one of the Merry Pranksters, Jerry Anderson, a marriage that lasted from 1965 to 1974.